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Reading Rainbow Remixed | In Your Imagination | PBS Digital Studios

PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateVoices ↓ More info below ↓ Reading Rainbow Remixed, by John D. Boswell, aka melodysheep, for PBS Digital Studios. http://to.pbs.org/pbsremixed For years, LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow have taught kids everywhere about the power of books and imagination. To this day, the show continues to encourage a love of reading and connect children to the world they live in through quality literature -- so they can "go anywhere, be anything." With this remix, John Boswell has captured those enduring lessons in song -- a fitting tribute to an important part of PBS history. Special thanks to PBS station WNED in Buffalo, NY, the original host station for Reading Rainbow. This is the fourth in a series of PBS icons remixed. Subscribe to the PBS Digital Studios channel to be the first to know about new remixes. And check out our playlists to watch all of the web series from PBS Digital Studios. More from John D. Boswell (melodysheep): http://www.youtube.com/melodysheep Follow PBS Digital Studios on Twitter: @pbsds Watch Julia Child Remixed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ZrUI... Watch Bob Ross Remixed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLO7tC... Watch Mister Rogers Remixed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzXaF...

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Reading Rainbow (theme) One of the best inventions ever was the book. A book lets you zoom through time and space. But don't bother packing, you can stay in one place. Whether you head north, south, east or west A book can be your passport From your own neighborhood to the craters of the moon In your imagination When you read a good book, you bring the book to life When you read a good book, you are the actor A book lets you zoom through time and space But don't bother packing, you can stay in o
ne place. Zoom zoom through time and space, but you don't have to take my word for it. There are stories, everywhere you look If you look in the right way New castles to build, mysteries to be solved The answer is in a book Believe it or not, this is a book Big or little, it doesn't matter It's what is inside that counts I love maps. All kids of maps Each one tells me something different about the world There's a map for just about any place you're interested in going Even the littlest idea can
end up as something big All of these books started out as an idea And look where they ended up A book lets you zoom through time and space But don't bother packing, you can stay in one place Zoom zoom through time and space, but you don't have to take my word for it. Inventing takes imagination How about you? If you could invent anything, what would it be? Shoes where you can walk on the walls Pocket-sized time machine Automatic dog walker Technology that makes kids in charge of the world A mach
ine that can clean up my room You can be the expert by picking up a book It's up to you to pick it off the shelf 0:02:58.190,0:2:21.349 You can be the expert by picking up a book It's up to you to bring it to life An idea has to start here or here You can bring a book to life in your imagination You can be the expert by picking up a book It's up to you to bring it to life A book lets you zoom to the craters of the moon You bring a book to life in your imagination Zoom through time and space, in
your imagination There are stories everywhere you look, if you look in the right way New castles to build, mysteries to be solved The answer is in a book There are stories everywhere you look, if you look in the right way New castles to build, mysteries to be solved You can be the expert, in your imagination

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